“As we learned on the American frontier, it is impossible to plant corn outside the stockade until the Indians are driven away.”
Source: Responsibility and Response (1967), p. 29
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“A country is signally blessed above others, which can grow Indian corn.”
Attributed to Arthur Young in: Henry Colman (1848), The Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, from Personal Observation http://books.google.com/books?id=fAcOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA300, p. 300

As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105
Source: In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon (1990), p. 92

“Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.”
The Brothers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)